YOUR WORST BAD BEAT EVER?

Hi, this is Dave Tuley from the Daily Racing Form. I'm compiling "bad beat" stories for a feature in the Form. It can be from football, horse racing, or any other sport or casino game.

If you would like to possibly have yours published, e-mail me your story at dtuley@drf.com and include your name and hometown. Hopefully enough time has elapsed that you can look back on them and laugh. Obviously, the most personal account (where you bet, was it the last leg of a parlay, your emotional state as you watched the action unfold, etc.) the better. I'll verify your stories by return e-mail and let you know if/when the stories will be reprinted. And I'll also post a notice here.

Or if you just want to vent your frustrations, you can just share your stories here (but the Form won't reprint any without name/hometown, so that's why I'm asking those interested to send a private e-mail).

Yours truly,
Dave Tuley

Kiss1, you got a story. Rams Int on MNF for the big bucks to get them off 29

bump, for anyone who wishes to participate.

bump again, for anyone who wants to have their bad beat story published in the Daily Racing Form (it can be therapeutic if you're able to look back and laugh about these things)

bump one more time...last call

This one is a gimme. My worst beat by far is not sports related. My worst beat was the day my phone rang on Jan 5th/2003, and answered it. I don't want to get into it, but I wish to god I never would have answered that phone. I will always despise Jan 5th forever. That call singlehandedly ruined my life.

Talk about a real bad beat here. It don't get worse. Even worse than losing a 10 team parlay that was 9 for 9 with one to go to hit big money and you blow a 21 pt lead in the 4th quarter. NO bad beat in sports can compare to this one, and I have been gambling for 23 years, so I seen a lot of bad beats.

I think you will have a tough time beating these two:

Bad Beat No2.

Buffalo +3.5 vs. NE, up 4 with seconds to play.

NE scores the winning TD on the final play. Buffalo leaves the field (with good reaon, they had been robbed by the zebras all game). NE tries to leave the field, but by rule NFL teams must line up for any extra point after time expires. They line up for the 1 point try, but since Buffalo is nowhere to be found they just walk off the field with the ball. As they approach the sideline, the player shrugs his shoulder, makes a 90 degree turn, and goes into the end zone. Buffalo loses by 4. No cover. None. Zero.

Bad Beat No. 1.

USC (+8.5 rogue line vs. ASU). We go into OT. This is the first year of OT so I turn off the TV, "knowing" it's a winner. I remember seeing a final score with ASU winning by 13, and thinking "IDIOTS! That score is obviously wrong". ASU scored their 7. USC threw an incompletion that was amazingly ruled a fumble. ASU picked it up and ran it up for another 6 points. ASU by 13. Knocked down all the closing line +6.5 to +12.5 teasers also. NEVER BET AGAIN.

Hi What could have been worse then the tampa bay monday night giving up 21 in the 4th q followed up by minn college letting mich score 31 in second half to win game. really no it wasnt a parlay it was two seperate bets. oh well thats why the play the games. bobk

last year

carolina/n.o.


will not go into details ..........much too painful

Anymore scenerios for tuleythetout?

Fezzik's are good. I distinctly remember that USC-Ariz St. game, that has to be the worst of all time. I was standing in the sports book watching grown men cry as the guy ran the int in.

Thanks to those who posted here, and to those who sent e-mails. Not sure when this will run in the Daily Racing Form. Probably in the next week or two. I'll post it here, too.

Fezzik...good luck at the Stardust. Is your semifinal match next Friday (Dec. 5)?

That ASU-USC game is the only one that's been submitted twice.

Note to bobk: My bad beat on the Bucs-Colts game was what prompted me to ask DRF readers for their bad beats.


Colts rally the stuff nightmares made of

By DAVE TULEY
LAS VEGAS - Bad beats - games in which you lose a bet after seemingly having it won - happen every weekend of the football season.
We saw one last Saturday when a UNLV running back was going in for a spread-covering TD vs. Nevada and fumbled through the end zone for a touchback. Another happened Sunday when the Redskins recovered an onside kick and scored a late TD to get a backdoor cover vs. the Eagles.

But there are bad beats, and then there are bad beats.

I was on the losing end of a classic one Monday night as the Colts beat the Buccaneers 38-35 in overtime to became the first team in NFL history to rally from a 21-point deficit with less than four minutes to play. I had the Bucs -4 1/2 with my published bankroll plays, in the Hilton SuperContest, and in my wallet. The Buccaneers jumped out to a 21-0 halftime lead, and I was well on my way to a 3-1-1 record for the week and a nice profit of 1.9 units (based on risking 1.1 units to win 1).

I won't even bother going into details, as just about anyone reading this (even those who turned off their televisions when the Bucs went up 35-14 on a Ronde Barber interception return with 5:09 to play have probably seen the replays by now.

By Tuesday morning, I had already seen and heard claims that "the fix was in" on Internet forums and on radio sports-talk shows. But I'm not going there. In a fixed game, the refs (or the league or the network or whoever else the conspiracy theorists would have you believe are in on it) wouldn't let the other team get up 21 points that late.

Besides, on the second onside kick before the two-minute warning, the Bucs recovered even though the Colts had the ball surrounded and the refs could have easily signaled that they had the ball. And in a fix, that running-into-the-kicker penalty would never have been called against the Colts in overtime. It was just a case of the Colts capitalizing on the breaks they got and the Bucs falling apart.

But bad beats are all part of the game. That's why it's called gambling. I would love to hear from readers about their worst beats, whether it was on a Hail Mary pass, a fluke defensive touchdown or a missed extra point. E-mail me at dtuley@drf.com. I'll compile the best/worst stories for a future column.

It might be therapeutic for you. And maybe it's a case of misery loving company, but I could use some therapy, too.

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Don't forget that game when UNLV played Baylor, and Baylor had it won. Instead of kneeling they tried to punch it in from the one, and the RB fumbled and UNLV ran it back 99 yards for the win. Not sure what the spread was, but it was a definite money line bad beat at least.

Sitting in Sports Bar in Brandon, Florida, NFC Championship game, Giants 41 Vikings 0
I had the over, which was 44 points . 41-0 early in the third, and the Giants lining up for short field goal to make it 44, and at least a push with well over 1QTR to go. They miss it, and I believe another later on, and my buddy then goes on to tell me after the missed field goals, "Man, if you lose this bet, it's a sign that you better quit gambling"................

I too had that USC/ASU game...I remember watching/listening to it on a pay per view scrambled screen...And that was the first time I realized Kieth Jackson was going senile...Trying to follow the game on a scrambled TV screen and his constant mistakes...And then the ending was just unreal...

USC/ASU game...couldn't believe it..Jake KILLED ME that year, my only saving grace was loading up (I think about $1000 which at the time was a MONSTER bet for me) on OSU in the ROSE bowl...he almost snaked me there too

Last week at Party Poker.

Flop 4 kings, lose to turn/river royal.

Fezzik
Was that you I passed in the hallway at the Hard Rock Hotel this afternoon (Friday, Nov. 28) around 2:30???

I had a horse one time at fairmount who was leading by about 15 lengths a sixteenth from home snap his leg and fell. He was 80/1. I had $50 to win on him.

Anthony:
OUCH (for you and the horse).